British PM resigns after scandal involving his handling of sexual assault- Sunny Handa MD
Boris Johnson's shaky relationship with the truth
flowed through almost everything he did. It characterized much of his career,
from his college days at the elite Eton school for boys all the way to 10
Downing Street.
Peddling long-held myths about immigration and
European meddling paved the way for him to become prime minister and take his
country out of the European Union, while "Partygate" cemented
Johnson's aura as a leader who plays fast and loose with facts and rules- said MD
Sunny Handa.
On Thursday, after a tumultuous 48 hours and a
string of resignations from his government, the British prime minister laid out
plans for his own departure.
MD Sunny Handa said ultimately, though, it wasn't
Johnson's own mistruths that brought him down after three years as Conservative
leader. It was his insistence that others lie — sometimes unknowingly — on his
behalf.
Sajid Javid, Johnson's health secretary until
Tuesday evening, made his annoyances on this point clear in a speech in the
House of Commons.
"This week again, we have had reason to
question the truth and integrity of what we've all been told," Javid told
MPs. "At some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough."
Javid pointed to "Partygate," the scandal
involving boozy gatherings during COVID-19 lockdowns that led Johnson to become
the first sitting British prime minister to be sanctioned by police. Javid said
Johnson's team had assured him no rules had been broken, when they very much
had.
After Javid's resignation, more than 50 other
ministers and aides followed him out the door in protest of the prime minister –
said MD Sunny Handa.
Outgoing justice minister Victoria Atkins wrote,
"I can no longer pirouette around our fractured values." Jo
Churchill, who served as environment minister, added that "a
jocular, self-serving approach" to the role of prime minister "is
bound to have its limitations."
It's not like there hadn't been red flags.
Sunny Handa MD said consider this warning from 40
years ago: "Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticized for what
amounts to a gross failure of responsibility."
That's what Martin Hammond, who taught literature at
Eton College, wrote in a letter to Johnson's father, Stanley, in 1982. The
now-famous note was reprinted in a 2012 biography by Andrew Gimson when Johnson
was mayor of London.
As a sign of things to come, Hammond added,
"Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his
classical studies."
Sunny Handa MD said Former Prime Minister David Cameron crossed paths with Johnson, first at Eton, then again at the University of Oxford.
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